Alex Sims is an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland’s Department of Commercial Law, which is part of the University of Auckland’s Business School. Before switching her research focus to blockchain technology, her research was primarily based on intellectual property law and consumer law. She is considered a world-class expert on DAOs, NFTs, cryptocurrency regulation and legal issues surrounding smart contracts. Amongst other things, Alex is a member of the executive council of BlockchainNZ. Alex has also become well known as a communicator on blockchain technologies, and she is featured regularly on TV, radio and print media on issues relating to blockchain and various legal matters. For additional content mentioned in this episode, please visit https://cryptogirlshq.com/shownotes/alex-sims -- Follow us: instagram.com/cryptogirlshq twitter.com/cryptogirlshq www.cryptogirlshq.com -- Disclaimer: CryptoGirlsHQ is not a financial adviser. There are risks involved in placing investments in securities, cryptocurrencies, and other asset classes such as NFTs. None of the information disseminated in this episode is intended to be financial advice or an investment recommendation and is for informational entertainment purposes only. Please see our legal disclaimer at: https://cryptogirlshq.com/legal

Alison Mackie is the current Executive Director of LocationTech, BlockchainNZ, IoT Alliance, and EdTech New Zealand. She oversees the business to turn New Zealand into a tech hub and prosperous digital nation, whilst also educating governments and corporations on blockchain practices and solutions. In 2018 she co-founded MeterMe, a blockchain solution to council water management. Alison holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Anthropology, Art History and Classical Studies from the University of Otago and a Master’s degree in Teaching and learning from The University of Canterbury. She is also certified in blockchain fundamentals from UC Berkeley X. If you are a woman in New Zealand and wanting to explore a career in technology and/or blockchain you can connect with Alison Mackie via LinkedIn. You can follow or join BlockchainNZ through their website https://blockchain.org.nz/. BlockchainNZ have published informative articles on blockchain and cryptocurrency which you can read through the same link. For this episode's show notes please visit https://cryptogirlshq.com/shownotes -- Follow us: instagram.com/cryptogirlshq twitter.com/cryptogirlshq www.cryptogirlshq.com -- Disclaimer: CryptoGirlsHQ is not a financial adviser. There are risks involved in placing investments in securities, cryptocurrencies, and other asset classes such as NFTs. None of the information disseminated in this episode is intended to be financial advice or an investment recommendation and is for informational entertainment purposes only. Please see our legal disclaimer at: https://cryptogirlshq.com/legal

Cryptocurrency is pretty cool but getting your head around the terms "decentralised" and "cryptography" can make our heads spin and wonder if this currency was only designed for super-nerds. Short answer: it's not. Cryptocurrency, and in particular the "OG" bitcoin, was designed to be used by everyone, and the people who designed cryptocurrency in the '90s and early '00s would be elated to see us women using it. Sophie & Nikita break down the question of what is cryptocurrency and how it's different from the digital money we see on our online banking accounts. Understanding how cryptocurrency works on the "blockchain network" (hint: it's just a database stored on lots of computers around the world), is the gateway drug to understanding how different applications can work on the blockchain. Did we hear authenticating Louis V via the blockchain back there? Topics covered: -What is money? - The Gold Standard - How did computer scientists make something that had no central authority, trustworthy? - What is blockchain and what does it look like? - How is the bitcoin network less-hackable than a normal bank? - Scalability: why bitcoin is slow to transact with, and why Visa is faster. **Show notes available at: cryptogirlshq.com/shownotes** -- Follow us:  instagram.com/cryptogirlshq twitter.com/cryptogirlshq www.cryptogirlshq.com -- Disclaimer: CryptoGirlsHQ is not a financial adviser. There are risks involved in placing investments in securities, cryptocurrencies, and other asset classes such as NFTs. None of the information disseminated in this episode is intended to be financial advice or an investment recommendation and is for informational entertainment purposes only. Please see our legal disclaimer at: https://cryptogirlshq.com/legal

In this pilot episode, Sophie & Nikita talk about their crypto journeys as millennial women. Crypto can be a challenging space to navigate, especially when crypto-fanatics tend to use complicated or vague terms that can hinder learning instead of help.  Sophie & Nikita dive into how they have overcome these learning challenges, and explore the possible applications of crypto technology they find so exciting. -- Note: our apologies for the drill sounds towards the end! The drill appeared spontaneously outside our apartment building while recording and was unable to be edited out in post-production. Follow CryptoGirlsHQ:  Instagram: instagram.com/cryptogirlshq Twitter: twitter.com/cryptogirlshq Web: https://cryptogirlshq.com -- Disclaimer: CryptoGirlsHQ is not a financial adviser. There are risks involved in placing investments in securities, cryptocurrencies, and other asset classes such as NFTs. None of the information disseminated in this episode is intended to be financial advice or an investment recommendation and is for informational entertainment purposes only. Please see our legal disclaimer at: https://cryptogirlshq.com/legal